E. L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment

Name: E. L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment
Brand: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
SKU: 9780820444703
Price: 5100 KES
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ISBN: 9780820444703

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by Michelle M. Tokarczyk

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Twentieth-century American Jewish Writers

ISBN-10 0820444707

ISBN-13 9780820444703

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Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 5th, 2000

Print length 194 Pages

Weight 300 grams

Dimensions 15.50 x 22.80 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -

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This book gives a political reading of E. L. Doctorow’s fiction. For Doctorow, there was a tension between the ideals of his socially aware family and those of the new critics under whom he studied as an undergraduate. This tension, making him skeptical about the possibilities of political involvement, has been beneficial because it has enabled Doctorow to avoid the excesses of both polemical writing and formalism. Through a stance Tokarczyk terms «skeptical commitment» he has written political fiction of high literary quality. In part, he has done so by adapting genres such as the western and the romance. Furthermore, Doctorow has used experimental techniques to express political and historical themes, thereby writing a kind of postmodern fiction that still maintains the possibility of establishing some truths, while acknowledging indeterminacy.

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